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REST Fest | Eclipse Edition
REST Fest 2024
Together We Have
REST Fest | all the Austinites
REST Fest 2024
Together We Can
XYZ Atlas
REST Fest 2024
"Behind by Mask" by Akirash
Gaga & Toolbox
Colaborator Fairy Best Life
The Quitter
REST Fest 2024
Theorist Fest 2019
Least of These
Founding Theorist, Twain Morrow
The Quitter
The Quitter
XYZ Atlas
Hiraeth
Carry On
Carry On
Theorist Fest 2019
Theorist Fest 2019
Theorist Fest 2019
Theorist Fest 2018
Theorist Fest 2019
"Behind by Mask" by Akirash
Theorist Fest 2019
Matt Shields & Friends Theorist Fest
Theorist Fest 2018
Theorist Fest 2019
Hiraeth
String Theory
Anthem
Theorist Practicum
American Beauties
Anthem
Conversation While Dancing
Celebrating 93 Years
"What if"
Theorist Fest
REST Fest 2024
Vision
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VISION

The Theorists are multi-disciplinary experimentalists rooted in optimism who create in Austin, Texas and beyond.

 

We are polymaths who believe

people matter, places matter,

and all we have is each other.

What if you did what you love

with those you love

for a little longer?

ORIGIN STORY

Our mantra  comes from

William Twain Morrow (age 94)

from his insatiable desire to ask, “what if?” 

Origin Story
Practices
Practices

Our year-round TBX [ Toolbox ] Laboratory training program includes weekly classes, workshops, choreographic residencies, and professional development.

Beginning with ourselves, we are agents of change. Our goal is to ignite movers of diverse backgrounds to harmonize complexities with coherency and coordination, within themselves, and with each other, and to show up daily with a hunger for life. Showing up is the show.

Our movement research includes over 14 years of Gaga directly under Ohad Naharin, Fighting Monkey™ with Jozef Frucek, Linda Kapetanea, and Jakub Zeman, Countertechnique® with Kira Blazek and Joy Davis, Classical Ballet, Feldenkrais®, Gyrokinesis®, and mentorship from Deborah Hay, Jesse Zaritt, Jason Akira Somma, and Sara Shelton Mann.

Performances
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Performances

Based in Austin, collaborators hail from across The Near East, India, South Korea, Europe, North, Central, and South America. They have shared their research and performances in Albuquerque, Birmingham, Cuernavaca, Dallas-Fort Worth, Delhi, Detroit, Guadalajara, Houston, Huntsville, Kerala, Monterrey, México City, Nashville, NYC, Oakland, Phoenix, Puebla, Richmond, San Antonio, Santa Fe, Seattle, Switzerland, Tulsa, and Vancouver. These culminate in REST Fest held annually in Austin featuring over 100+ multi-disciplinary artists, performances, classes, and installations.

 

Art-fiction portrait/exhibition “Batsheva,” is written by Saundra Goldman and produced by Rino Pizzi with the artistic guidance of Deborah Hay. “The Lady of” solo was selected by Nancy Wozny as Arts and Culture’s standouts for the 2014-15 season and “Carry On” received the 2016 choreographic exchange award for the 2017 Detroit Dance City Festival Gala and Dumbo Dance Festival. Excerpts of evening-length works toured Grace Street Theater, The Majestic, Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Moody Performance Hall, Eisemann Center, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Zilker Hillside Theater, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Tulsa Ballet Studio K, and the Fort Worth Modern among others.

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